Mine Collapse and Abandoned Acid Factory - Tennessee Copper Basin
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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Jacob! Thanx so much for this vid. My Hill Billy family--they were Tennessee Ridge Runners--born in Duck Town, Mccaysville, or Epworth. My Grandpa Mashburn worked
in Copperhill in the smelting room. In there blasts of fire using sulfuric acid as a catalyst separated the copper from the ore. [He was able to buy a small farm near Higdon Store & fortunately he lived to be 96]. B. T. W. my Great-grandpa Johnson [related to Lyndon Johnson] owned land & buildings in Blue Ridge that he donated for a school. I read it in his will. He owned 1 slave.
Hey Cousin Mike David here I worked their 23 years myself our uncle SGT John Winton Mashburn also so did dad for awhile.
My hometown. I lived right down from the bursa bura mine. Grew up running those hills and playing in and around the mines
Good morning and happy Saturday Jacob! Thank you for capturing another cool place would've never known about it if I hadn't watched this morning. Very cool. Hopefully we will see you down here in the deep South sometime!
I run a business at the airport in Copperhill TN. I have spoken to many of the "old timers" and the history here is vast. The clouds of sulfuric acid would float through the valleys and destroy not only clothes and vegetation but many of the residents were compensated by "the company", for their lost gardens as well. Not only copper was found, but many precious stones and it was overheard from the owner of the mine during a game of golf, the enough gold was recovered to pay for the operation! To date, this, I believe, is the largest EPA Superfund payout in US history. It was a barren site for a 25 mile radius and visible from the space shuttle. The "Company" paid local Boy Scout troops to plant acid resistant pine trees.... A fascinating history😊
Good one. Nice drone work and music!
What a fascinating place Jacob, thank you!
I had no idea of this place or of the history there. You did a great job Jacob! Excellent! Enjoyed watching.
Thank you for this video❤
My Mother' family is from this area. She was born in 1938 and told me about the acid "fog". Most of her family worked in those copper mines.
It’s horrible how often cities like this are replicated. There are many places who have been destroyed by pollution from local factories. Nowadays it’s mostly oil and gas refineries. My dad grew up (and worked his whole life) in one. My grandparents developed a lot of health ailments and so do a lot of people in the area which is 90% refinery and 10% houses right in they backyard. Fortunately my parents moved away when I was born.
i love starting my day with one of your videos, loved it, thank you and good morning.
Jacob, your drone footage with the accompanying music is the best I've seen on UA-cam. If I didn't know better, I'd think you had been doing drone filming for years.
What an interesting area.
I grew up in the area graduating from Copperbasin high school in 1990. I've moved since but still cool to see the area. thanks for sharing
Jacob, You are among my people there. I can remember visiting as a child and seeing the absolute absence of vegetation. My dad was born in Isabella, which is just a few miles east of Ducktown, very close to the NC border. I have a first cousin who still lives near Copper Hill who worked in that sulfuric acid factory I believe right up until it closed. You just brought back a lot of really good memories for me. Thanks for doing this video.
Tom Hubbard, while a few relatives remain near Blue Ridge, a whole lot of
them fled in the 1930's & 40's for Florida to find work. My grandpa worked in
Copper Hill at one of the mining companies [I am 69]. Read my post to the
CarpetBagger [above].
The acid is used to dissolve the copper in pits. The dense slurry was then pumped/relocated/processed(the copper removed) and the cycle begins again....... Sulfuric acid is made with sulfur. And water. Nice video. Thank you.
Your drone shots are really good. Gives a good perspective of the areas you are in.
Wow, this was really interesting! I definitely learned something new today~
I'm liking this music.
Wow Jacob, those drone shots were awesome! I love the south and all the little towns you take us to, thanks so much!! Keep up the great work!!
i'm loving these videos. it's like a story time video, but much better
Really enjoyed this one, Jacob. You captured some nice shots with the drone.
I got engaged at El Rio's Mexican Restaurant. The window where the body was displayed. LOL! I never knew that story!
I live in Ducktown and this video is great.there is and old chimney where they smelted the iron
As a new pilot in the mid eighties, I flew over this place and could not believe what I was seeing.. just a red, Dusty and barren waste land.. and it's good to see it turning green again.. it looked pretty hopeless back then..
I think the slide acoustic should be the staple music for drone footage.
Very interesting, never knew about any of that. The drone shots were awesome.
Glad you didn't really go into that shaft. 😀
I enjoy the videos. Keep them coming
My hometown
I forgot to mention that the MUSIC was really really good!!!!!
your drone footage is pretty niffty and spiffy...awesome work
very cool old times place
I enjoy the drone shots and you've gotten good at flying very quickly. I took me about 3 months to master my drone. I'm trying to keep track of the places you've visited so I can plan my summer road trip to see some of them in person.
Sounded like Johnny Winter jamming
Great vid Jacob ❤️ Oz
Great video Jacob!
nice video I thought You were actually going in a mineshaft at first lol
Megan (Danny's chemist wife) here: the reason for the acid factory is cool and kind of scary. A major biproduct of coal extraction is sulfur dioxide, which is toxic and smells terrible. Usually, it is only released during a volcanic eruption. At first the copper company just let this stuff into the air, then the local farmers sued because their crops died. So the solution was the acid factory. Sulfur dioxide is a great starting material to make sulfuric acid. The company captures the sulfur dioxide, turns it into acid and then sells it. Seems awful but this solution probably made the air easier to breathe. The only reason there is vegetation there now is because millions of trees and acid-tolerant grass have been planted. Eww
+Daniel Arrington that's insane
Is that your son playing the blues guitar riff in this video? Phenomenal sound, goes great with the video
Very good job Jacob.
ur expert dronesman love background old timey music
It's home for me... I’m like less that one mile from downtown McCaysville.
Great video, thanks !
Another great video! Good Morning man. safe travels and thanks for the daily entertainment. God Bless
5:23 - Nothing more appetizing than a skeleton in front of your restaurant.
And yet it's recovered.
lol...oh look there an abandon mine shaft, as you RUN toward it...I was laughing so hard!
thanks for another great blog, so interesting to see the hidden places you find...
safe travels and love and hugs from Seattle!
Great Video!!!
Dan Bell recently mentioned you in one of his videos. So glad I checked you out. Awesome video, interesting subject matter, terrific music. I just subscribed. Thanks!
+Krista J awesome! I appreciate his shout out
Mr Carpetbagger I was just letting you know I ordered a t-shirt today😊
+Chizzie Lovell awesome, I appreciate the support
Awesome Possum! :-D
Great stuff👍🏼😃
When I was a kid attending high school in the mountains of north Georgia, the area in the copper basin was a hideous ecologically raped wasteland. I once climbed a fire tower in the Chattahoochee National Forest in the Cohutta Mountains and looked north to see the copper basin. It was like a vast, poisonous, brown and yellow scab on the Earth. Many miles across.
Anyone who thinks industrial regulation is a bad thing should have been forced to look at that poisoned sewer of a place.
I love all of the history ! And your son's guitar playing. What type of guitar is that?. The sound is amazing!!
I bet the acid factory was doing great in the 60's
Hahahahaha!!!...
Duck town Tennessee is my hometown
6:10 - I'm sure the locals don't MINE that one bit.
thinking about the last video i watched on mine exploration (the one with the super scary noises and the moving chain) i'm pretty glad you didn't go in there!
nice view
Who is playing the slide gitfiddle in the background? It sound really great!!!
That must of been creepy to see an Unkown body in the window it must of scared alote of customer's when they past it
People weren't so soft and offendy back then.
Being from Blue Ridge, I drive through there every time I drive home from WV. Never seen some of that stuff though. Awesome video!
Great volg Jacob the drone shots are fantastic .Please please tell me who wrote the music you use in the drone segments. .Thanks 🐱🐱🐱🐱
Sharon Longfellow His brother
sweet!
Jacob, may I may an editorial suggestion? That music you used during the drone shots was perfect for the mood, loved it, but it always felt truncated when it'd abruptly fade off when you'd go back to ground footage; I think it would be smoother, and would sustain the mood better, if you would just lower it in volume and let it continue under your regular footage as background. Not saying you should change THIS video now that it's already up; just a suggestion for FUTURE projects. 😉
As for the story told here, geez... and I thought the Tar Ponds were bad. It was a major environmental disaster created by the Sydney Steel Plant which used to be the main industry here in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Almost a century of steel making waste had been dumped into Muggah's Creek, which ran past the steel plant. Back in the 1970s and 80s it was literally a mass of black tar, hence the name Tar Ponds. You could smell it from kilometers away, and it was considered one of the worst environmental disasters not only in Canada but in North America.
Anyway, not too long ago the problem was finally dealt with by encasing the waste in a steel and concrete bunker underground (I don't know all of the details; I'm neither an engineer nor an environmentalist but that's the general idea). A public park, Open Hearth Park, currently stands where the Muggah's Creek "Tar Ponds" once stood.
+PedalingPrince I do like that idea, still messing around with how to incorporate the drone
What's the music when you were using your drone over the collapsed mine?
kool video
#thecarpetbagger. Great video!!! Where did you stay in the town?
I realize this video is a bit old but to explain the acid factory: mining companies use acid to separate the metals from the rocky ore it's embedded in through a process called leaching, so of course a successful mine needs/needed a lot of acid on hand to get at those metals. In copper's case, it was Sulfiric acid, especially nasty.
+Tsaranon thanks! Makes more sense now
FYI, one of the perpetrators of 9/11 visited Copperhill before September 11th. He was scoping out the chemical factory.
Cool :)
who is the artist for the music when you are flying the drone?
+Tony Henry my brother
What's up C Bagger?
The release of sulfur dioxide was a waste of resources. Plenty of copper mines control such gases and don't have the effect described in this video. Mining in 2020 isn't mining from the 1950's.
Heyyyy Dan Bell mentioned you! I oft times wonder if any of you guys follow each other
+Candy Santillo Dans a great guy and has been very supportive
So glad to hear that! I only subscribe to a few and it seems I've found all the best people.
Darn that pizza place was closed😥. You could of had a nice COPPER topped pizza🍕🍕🍕a Duracell pizza. Imagine what that would do to you.🤮
Nature has fortunately recovered well after the damage has made man.
Bisar story to put a corpse in the store.
I wounder if the sign said : If no one clams the body with in a week it's going to the rubbish tip
do I have permission to draw you? ...jacob
+outdoor reality of course
thank you, check back in few days to see it..:-)
Did you ever get that drawing?!
Jacob, please buy a razor, by the way, this was one of your best videos, the drone is working great for your videos, keep it up buddy!
I'm first again!
HappyMommy watson Just to let you know, your not in grade school anymore!!! :-)
Scooty Glendale little things make me happy! I never get first lol
If you wanted first, you should have worked for it!!!
I was watching this about the Trees regenerating .... My crews as I director of operation for Great Northern Forestry ...... I work reforestation of the Copper Hill Basin for 8 years .... This was the biggest scare on Americans soil ....Abandon mines were caused by lack of laws before 1954 ..... After they changed the laws in 1954 coal company have to leave the state millions of dollars reserve so the coal mines will be put back as far and grass and trees ..... So there will abandon mines like this again .... But my point is the trees and grass did not regenerate natural ..... We planted these trees by hand as I worked on this land for 8 years we planted 500,000 trees every year and a total of 4 million trees were planted by my crews .... So a most of the trees were planted and by my crews ...... As you could see it looks like the surface of the Moon .... There were no nutrients in the ground so every tree that was planted there was a pellet also placed 1 inch from the planted tree ....... They also would planted grass seeds along with fertilizer by helicopter due to the terrain .
Well, that's some interesting stuff you're telling there, but for the most part it is not even remotely correct. Too bad, the video part was interesting.
Ha. I grew up there ,started school at Ducktown , First grade 1954. This reminds me of Joe Biden bragging about all the degrees he had.